First Total Immersion Lesson And I'm Finally Here

[tribogota]

hi triathlete, not wannabe,
You actually have an advantage to learning how to swim from zero and with good coaching, it means you will learn how to swim correctly, instead of spending years correcting all the silliness that you were doing before. If only we could learn to run from zero, we wouldn't have so many other weird postural things going on that we need to unlearn.
I spent the first two years swimming for triathlon, UN LEARNING and have finally gotten some of the technique down.
The second advantage is the windsurfing thing, windsurfing helps A LOT on the open water swims, you have some already assimilated water reading skills which a lot of people don't have. On my first open water swim (the first time I swam in open water), I did very well, even better than some of the top women, cause they were going zig zag all over the place, but I had picked out a line (very similar to windsurfing) that got me to the shore in the shortest amount of time including wind, currents, waves, etc.
have fun!